Authors: Feldhammer, Drickamer, Vessey and Merritt
Published: McGraw Hill.
Pages: 550
Comprehensive textbook covering all areas relative to the study of Mammals.
Contents
Introduction
The Study of Mammalogy
History of Mammalogy
Methods and Techniques for Studying Mammals
Evolution and Dental Characteristics
Structure and Function
Integument, Support, and Movement
Foods and Feeding
The Nervous and Endocrine Systems, and Biological Rhythms
Environmental Adaptations
Reporoduction
Adaptive Radiation and Diversity
Monotremes and Marsupials
Insectivora, Macroscelidea, Scandentia and Dermoptera
Chiroptera
Primates
Xenarthra, Pholidota, and Tubulidentata
Carnivora
Cetacea
Rodentia and Lagomorpha
Proboscidea, Hyracoidea and Sirenia
Perissodactyla and Artiodactyla
Authors: Feldhammer, Drickamer, Vessey and Merritt
Published by McGraw Hill.
Pages: 550
Behaviour, Ecology and Biogeography
Communication, Aggression, and Spatial Relations
Sexual Selection, Parental Care, and Mating Systems
Social Behavior
Dispersal, Habitat Selection and Migration
Populations and Life History
Community Ecology
Zoogeography
Special Topics
Parasites and Diseases
Domestication and Domesticated Mammals
Conservation